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Guatemala on Sunday announced that the country will shift its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. "Wonderful news and true friendship!"

Guatemala and Israel have long had close ties, especially in security matters and Israeli arms sales to Guatemala.

In a post on his official Facebook account Sunday, Morales said that after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he chose to instruct Guatemala's foreign ministry to move the embassy.

"We have a Christian way of thinking that, as well as the politics of it, has us believing that Israel is our ally and we must support it".

Morales, like Trump, was a television entertainer with no real political experience before becoming president of Guatemala in 2016. "So I inform you that I have instructed the chancellor to initiate the respective coordination so that it may happen".

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In the video, Netanyahu made a pitch for people to visit Israel.

"It's a shameful and illegal act that goes totally against the wishes of church leaders in Jerusalem" and of a non-binding U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning the US recognition, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, the French press agency, AFP, reported.

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales announced his decision, but he fell short of setting a timetable for the same.

Guatemala is home to about 1,000 Jews in a population of 15 million.

There have been near daily protests across the Palestinian territories since Trump's controversial December 6 announcement that he would recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the United States embassy there from Tel Aviv.

The resolution passed by the General Assembly declared the USA action on Jerusalem "null and void".

Several significant U.S. allies abstained from the United Nations vote, among them Australia, Canada, Mexico and Poland.

If the trend following last Thursday's vote at the UN General assembly holds on, in a mere 14 years' time Palestinians will no longer enjoy the support of a staggering half of the 193-strong global body.

Central America is closely following the Caribbean region in terms of tilting towards Israel: in 2012, six of the eight countries voted against Israel, whereas this year, only three did so.

While deriding the "preposterous" vote, Netanyahu expressed appreciation of the "fact that a growing number of countries refuse to participate in this theater of the absurd".

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The move was hailed by Netanyahu and by leaders across much of the Israeli political spectrum. The holy city has been at the centre of peace-making efforts for decades.

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